Standard Mandarin

I would give the free part of the app 2 stars and the additional 'anatomy' feature 1 star. Hence 2 stars overall. The free part is basically providing audio of every possible sound in Chinese. Underwhelmingly presented, but also fine, I guess. However, $12.99 is far too much to pay for the 'anatomy' feature. Please save your money people. The idea of the 'anatomy' feature is to show you how to make every possible Chinese sound via an animated infographic of the mouth. The idea is good, but the execution of the infographics is underwhelming and don't actually help. Take for example the 'r' sound and 'zh' sounds; the infographics do not show enough detail to teach you the differences between these sounds. The images look basically the same, and there is a very loose description in text. For $12.99, I'm sorry but you should do a lot more that this.

This app is extremely helpful for the Mandarin student who wishes to master the tonal aspect of the Chinese language.

This app is off to a good start introducing most of the initial sounds of mandarin in combination with the finial and vowel sounds. However, you cannot search the sounds by finial/vowel sound. Additionally, some of the phonemes and syllables do not have a corresponding recording to play, which seems just to be an app error. There is no feedback ability in the app so whether or not you are accurately reproducing the sounds is not measured. The best aspect of the app is the animated visualisations of how to move your mouth in order to produce accurate sounds. This is very useful. However, in order to use this resource fully you must pay the in app purchase fee of 9.99. I am looking for an app to help my husband learn Mandarin. It's too bad it doesn't seem fully realised yet.

This is very helpful in learning the pronunciations of words in mandarin.

This is not an English to Chinese translator. This helps those who are genuinely interested in learning the language sounds and the correct pronunciations of the Chinese words. This app has been an invaluable tool. Thank you so much! Hope that I can get all of the awesome features that you have to offer as app features soon! Can't wait to try your sentence structure game! Thanks again!

No english translation for ANY of the words.

Use this app all the time. Very useful On iPad when not at home. Also use it on My Mac . Works well.

This app has really helped me with my pronunciation !

This app is free but if you want no ads you must pay $9.99, AND if you want a diagram of how to say it you must pay another $9.99! They do not offer a demo version, so unless you want to pay this, you will have to fork it over. 真是敲竹杠呀！